CAPITALIZING ON THE DIALECTICAL ECONOMY OF HEGEMONY.
This essay offers a symptomatic reading of Laclau's On Populist Reason, arguing that his discursive theory of politics remains needlessly trapped within a restricted, recuperative economy of the signifier. As a result, Laclau is characteristically unable either to perform or to recognize precisely t...
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